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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
12
The notice details subscription terms for the Oxford Iter published every Friday by H J Smith. It lists $1.00 per issue or $1.50 for annual prepaid, with arrearages triggering continued engagement, and outlines advertising rates and job printing services including labels and posters.
Friday notices detail social visits from Amelia Melsheimer and the Misses Fickes to Miss Mary Emmert, students leaving for Bloomsburg and Shippensburg Normal Schools, and various Hanover area residents visiting relatives or changing places of residence. The list includes Emmert family members, Carl ise street residents, and new or returning hires at local hotels and rail jobs.
Abilene Kansas residents report Samuel Freeman of Sand Springs, 86, rides to Sunday school on horseback and has shaken hands with presidents from Harrison to Roosevelt. The note recalls his Gettysburg kinship and long life of public service before recounting two local tragedies: Elmer Stum, 17, killed near Carlisle after a train incident, and Freeman’s neighbor injured near Barnitz Station.
Wentz Bros and Frey advertise white muslin underwear at fair prices on Balto Street. Cumberland county court hears a case about Min serva White toll gate funds found last fall. About $3000 was uncovered with no heirs, state law calls for escheat, informant to receive one-third. claims filed by Mon, Charles 17. Mullen and Addison Bowman as first informant.
For Rent. Dwelling house and store room in New Chester available with possession given April. For particulars call on or address H. Myers, New Oxford.
York county storekeepers were targeted by brash agents selling stock in a phantom corporation with a $100,000,000 capital meant to break up a sugar trust. Merchants paid up to $7300, with installments offered, believing the scheme had Wall Street backing. no such company exists and victims seek the responsible parties.
Miss Guila Neil aged 10 daughter of Charles Neil a Hall area farmer in York County died at home Wednesday morning from blood poisoning following a corn sheller accident on Saturday March 24. Her hand was caught in the sheller while helping shell corn, injury dressed that day, but swelling and tetanus signs appeared by Tuesday, worsening until death.
Bono & Co promotes sturdy buggies built by skilled professionals with eight to sixteen years of use among business men. A large stock of up to date rubber and steel tire buggies is available at low prices. Visit to inspect the collection.
Wauntz Bros. & Frey at 33 Baltimore Street, Hanover, catalogs a large stock of Ladies Spring Jackets. Dr. A. M. Hengst, practicing medicine 27 years at Birdsboro, has visited about 2000 families in the area, with only one maternal death reported among the stock’s distribution.
Science claims the moon has an atmosphere aiding life but not for humans while promoting Electric Bitters as a universal tonic curing headaches biliousness malaria chills fever jaundice dyspepsia izziness torpid liver kidney complaints general debility and female weakness. Ed. T. Auker guarantees at 50 cents.
The ad urges regular sleep for nerve restoration and overall health. It touts Dr Miles Nervine and Restorative Nervine as remedies, boasting a testimonial from Mrs. Brightson of Belvidere Illinois and a money back guarantee via Miles Medical Co.
IST of jurors for the Court of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer to be held at Gettysburg Adams County. Names include John W. Black Cumberland Twp Ephraim Cashman Straban Irwin Emlet Elias Fissel Littlestown and others from Reading Reading Twps and various boroughs with occupations such as teacher farmer laborer hay dealer cigarmaker guard and merchant.
A long roll lists Petit Jurors drawn for the Court of Quarter Sessions and Court of Oyer and Terminer at Gettysburg Adams County to cover the fourth Monday of April 1906 with two weeks service if needed. Names include Ball Richard and many residents from Cumberland Franklin Mountjoy Huntington and Gettysburg borough and surrounding townships.
A court proclamation issued under seal announces six action items on March 22. The fragment outlines judicial procedures and mentions a specific date without additional context.
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